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PRIDE MONTH PRESENTS: Captive Genders at NYU

A panel on trans/queer folks, mass incarceration and the politics of abolition. Tuesday, October 25 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm NYU Kimmel Center, Rosenthal 10th Floor 60 Washington Square South

Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press)

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming [...]

PRIDE MONTH PRESENTS: Homotopia film screening at NYU

PRIDE MONTH PRESENTS: Homotopia film screening at NYU

A film by Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley Screening and Q and A with Eric Stanley and Ralowe T. Ampu Monday, October 24 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm NYU Kimmel Center, 912

Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles [...]

Queer Artists of Color Showcase & Roundtable Discussion

Spotlight: Empowerment Through Art! QPOC Artist Showcase & Roundtable

Thursday, October 6 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Bluestockings Bookstore – 172 Allen St, New York, NY $5 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!

How do we gain empowerment through art? How can the arts be a form of activism? In the space [...]

REVIEW: Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left: “Complexities and Contradictions”

Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left: “Complexities and Contradictions” New York University, 19 September 2011

Bettina Aptheker’s engaging talk “Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left,” organized by NYU’s Department of Teaching and Learning and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), showcased both her incredible [...]

Going Viral Against HIV: Social Media & Prevention

Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center & Pride Month at NYU present

Going Viral Against HIV: Social Media & Prevention

This interactive workshop explores the powerful potential of social media as a tool in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. Discussing the need for prevention services among young people, MSM, and women of color, we will [...]

Coming Out in the Developing World: Overcoming Homophobia in Africa

Thursday, October 6, 2011 6:00 pm

Reception to follow The New School 66 5th Avenue, Ground Floor Kellen Auditorium

As the LGBT rights movement has grown in Africa, many governments have strengthened their laws condemning homosexuality. Certain African media, religious, and political figures have denounced homosexuality as a Western import.

How do Western organizations [...]

Queering Paradigms: Call For Papers

Call For Papers – Queering Paradigms IV

Character of the conference and contributions:

Following the success of the three international, interdisciplinary Queering Paradigms conferences held thus far on three continents, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Graduate Program in Social Memory at the [...]

Rutgers University Presents: “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories”

Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories

Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:00am-5:00pm Essex Room, 231/232 Paul Robeson Campus Center Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark has partnered with community leaders to present “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories,” a free, full-day, oral history conference examining gay life in Newark. On November 12, 2011, three generations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, [...]

From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: Fiona Brideoake

FROM IRISH EXILE TO WELSH CELEBRITY: THE QUEER SELF-FASHIONING OF THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN

a lecture by Fiona Brideoake

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October 5, Wednesday 7 to 8:30 pm

Fiona Brideoake, Literature, American University

Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby eloped together from Kilkenny in 1778. They settled in the [...]

Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences 2012-2014

The School of Arts and Sciences invites applicants for four two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows will teach one course per term. Eligibility is limited to applicants who will have received their Ph.D. within two years [...]